02599nam 2200613Ia 450 991045872970332120200520144314.01-62103-210-81-282-82131-897866128213181-60473-748-4(CKB)2560000000053348(EBL)692062(OCoLC)671655054(SSID)ssj0000414125(PQKBManifestationID)11248785(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000414125(PQKBWorkID)10401352(PQKB)10927196(StDuBDS)EDZ0000203684(MiAaPQ)EBC692062(MdBmJHUP)muse13532(Au-PeEL)EBL692062(CaPaEBR)ebr10425146(CaONFJC)MIL282131(EXLCZ)99256000000005334820100217d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCivil War humor[electronic resource] /Cameron C. NickelsJackson, Miss. University Press of Mississippi20101 online resource (260 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-60473-747-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Humor and the Civil War presidents -- Humor on the home front -- Civil War, war humor -- The African American in Civil War humor.In Civil War Humor, author Cameron C. Nickels examines the various forms of comedic popular artifacts produced in America from 1861 to 1865, and looks at how wartime humor was created, disseminated, and received by both sides of the conflict. Song lyrics, newspaper columns, sheet music covers, illustrations, political cartoons, fiction, light verse, paper dolls, printed envelopes, and penny dreadfuls--from and for the Union and the Confederacy--are analyzed at length.Nickels argues that the war coincided with the rise of inexpensive mass printing in the United States and thus subsequently withAmerican wit and humorHistory and criticismUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865HumorUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Literature and the warElectronic books.American wit and humorHistory and criticism.817/.409358731Nickels Cameron C928509MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458729703321Civil War humor2086853UNINA